This volume provides a broad survey of auto facilities, autoracks, etc. as they pertain to the Santa Fe System. Autorack development is covered as are the various terminals for loading and unloading automobiles. Auto parts shipping practices and equipment are also covered with various images and diagrams being provided. This volume is the 4th in a series featuring drawings, images, black & white, and reference material. Soft cover.

This new volume on Santa Fe’s modern box cars starts where John Dobyne’s Santa Fe Railway Rolling Stock Reference Series Volume 4 Santa Fe Boxcars 1869-1953 left off. Begining with the 500 cars Bx-66 Class cars of 1954—one of the last classes of box cars to come lettered from the builders with name train slogans on the car sides—it completes the story of box car development up to the BNSF merger of 1995. This was the colorful Shock Control and Super Shock Control era.

Topeka shops installed a 10-inch travel “Shock Control” sliding center sill underframe in a Bx-66 Class box car in June 1958. Numbered, 10001 and reclassed as a Bx-77 with a new Indian red and black paint scheme with a large Santa Fe herald and new advertising slogan “DF with Shock Control” splashed across the car side, this car ushered in a new era in box car construction. From then on, nearly all new classes of Santa Fe box cars were fitted with either a Shock Control, or a Super Shock Control underframe, introduced in 1961. The last box cars built new for Santa Fe were 200 XF food loading car in Class Bx-211 outshopped at Santa Fe’s Topeka shops in 1981.

Because the appearance of new rolling stock delivered to Santa Fe from the car builders often varied widely from standard Santa Fe painting and lettering practice, a painting and lettering reference by class or groups of similar classes for cars in as-delivered livery, is included in the appendix, along with representative photos in color. 317 Black & White photos, 75 diagrams. Soft cover, spiral bound. more»

This 80-page B&W book is the fifth in the series and features drawings, images and reference material. The author examines representative samples of the many bridges carrying the rails of the Santa Fe. Soft Cover.

History of SF’s passenger trains carries readers back to an era of luxury travel on America’s rails from its first run in 1936 to its takeover by Amtrak in 1971. Includes coverage of the Chiefs including the Texas and San Francisco. Hard Cover. more»

This second volume in the Santa Fe Passenger Car Train Book Reference Series includes chapters on 1901-1907 first generation 20th century cars wood construction, 1909-1912 steel underframe/wood body 70ft, pre-war lightweight and more. more»

The first in a Engineering Series featuring files, images, & reference material from the R.L. Crump Library, Includes a variety of wood, concrete, & steel designs used by AT&SF and predecessor roads. Soft Cover.

Includes photos and text on the Depots of the Los Angeles Division of the Santa Fe. Includes the desert lines, through Cajon Pass, the Orange Belt Line Route, Santa Ana Canyon Line, points west of Redondo Junction, the California Southern mainline and rails along the surf. Hard Cover. more»

Includes more than 300 B&W illustrations, 8 maps, and 8 color photos plus a comprehensive station roster. This book presents a station-by-station look at the depots along the Valley Division. Includes the history of the Santa Fe Coast Lines, photos of the trains and depots, the Desert Lines, the Tehachapis, the Southern Valley Lines, The Northern Valley Lines, and the San Francisco Bay. Hard Cover.

This book brings to print the late Robert Pounds' work on the Gulf Lines depots. Published in the same style as his Western Lines Depots book of 1984, it includes sections on Station Name Sources, a basic history of "The GC," Depot Construction & Evolution, Depot Operations & Services, and is then broken into chapters on the Main Line, covering the 1st District of the Galveston Division, 1st and 2nd Districts of the Southern Division, and 1st and 2nd Districts of the Northern Division. The Galveston Division sections covers the Galveston Terminal, Houston, Matagorda, Garwood, Bonus, Hall and Nash Dome Districts and the Texas City Terminal Railway Co. The Southern Division section covers the Lampasas, Sweetwater, San Saba, San Angelo, Paint Rock, Sterling City, Dublin, Menard, and Waco Districts. The Beaumont Division section covers the Somerville, Conroe, San Augustine, Longview, Port Bolivar, Silsbee, Saratoga, Grigsby, Oakdale and Ore City Districts. The Northern Division section covers the Pauls Valley, Dallas, Paris, Sherman, Honey Grove, Weatherford, Cresson, Ringling, Sulphur, Lindsay and Ada Districts. Hard cover.
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Volume 7 Paired Rail’s Engineering series looks at depots a bit differently than previous works. Author Robert D. Walz shows Santa Fe depots as examples of architectural form and function, depicting the wide variety of Santa Fe depots from the very large to the very small, from the unique to the standard. Volume One examines the larger depots as well as smaller depots constructed primarily of brick, concrete, and stucco. Most photos and plans in this volume are from the R. L. Crump/Priest Library collection. The photos, taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s, show the depots at the peak of Santa Fe passenger service. Soft cover.

Volume 8 in Paired Rail’s Engineering series continues the examination of Santa Fe depot’s form and function by examining the railroad’s standard wood-frame depots that developed from the earliest structures. Depots 2 also examines the many non-standard wood-frame depots that mostly came to Santa Fe through the acquisition of other lines, as well as the post-World War II modern depots. Like Volume 1, most photos and plans in this volume are from the R. L. Crump/Priest Library collection. The photos, taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s, show the depots at the peak of Santa Fe passenger service. Soft cover.

This 2nd volume looks at the yards that were located at the boundaries of operating divisions. The classis period of the Santa Fe was 1931 and was organized into 4 grand divisions. This book will cover the division point yards in each of the 4 grand divisions, the Eastern Lines, the Western Lines, the Coast Lines, and the Gulf Lines. Soft Cover.

As the Nineteenth Century drew to a close, three railroads controlled by the Santa Fe operated between Albuquerque and the West Coast - the Atlantic and Pacific (Santa Fe Pacific), the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley and the Southern California Railway. From Grand Division headquarters in Los Angeles, a full vice-president of the Santa Fe was placed in charge as the general manager. The Coast Lines controlled all operations west of Albuquerque and Belen through four operating divisions. soft cover. more»

The oldest of Santa Fe's grand divisions, Eastern Lines territory extends west from Chicago to Newton and includes operations as far south as Purcell and Tulsa. Before 1901, Eastern Lines made up most of what was then called the Eastern Grand Division. From headquarters in Topeka, the vice-president and general manager and his seven division superintendents were responsible for over 2,800 miles of railroad. Soft cover. more»

Stretching from Newton, Kansas through Colorado into New Mexico and down from Wellington into Oklahoma and Texas, Western Lines was by far the largest grand division on the system. Headquartered at Amarillo, the Western Lines (and headquarters of subsidiary Pandhandle and Santa Fe) organized itself into two districts - Northern and Southern. Soft cover. more»

SF’s railroad branch line network was quite extensive, handling everything from unit coal trains to single cars of Kansas grain. Explore the stations and other railroad-owned buildings of the ATSF in almost 300 color train photos. Hard Cover. more»

Over 280 color photos of stations, signals, shops, yards, and other segments of the physical plant along the right of way from Chicago to Los Angeles from the late 1950s to 1990. Hard Cover.
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